Pyongyang, March 4 (KCNA) -- Nam Sung U, vice-chairman of the Central Standing Committee of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon), issued a statement on March 3 to condemn the Lee Myung Bak group of traitors for committing again high treason such as hurting the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK.

The Lee group is the sworn enemy whom we cannot live under the same sky and the warmongers of the puppet military are bandits of traitors whom we should wipe out at any cost, the statement said.

The prevailing situation is calling upon all the Koreans in the north and the south and abroad to wage a struggle to bury the group for good and all, it noted, and went on:

Chongryon and Koreans in Japan will turn out as one in the nationwide struggle to wipe out the bandits of heinous traitors who are driving the situation on the Korean Peninsula to the brink of war while getting hell-bent on the sycophancy and treachery and moves for confrontation with fellow countrymen.

The Koreans in Japan, who have taken the road of patriotism, keeping pace with the motherland, will greatly contribute to making a breakthrough for independent reunification, holding the dear respected Kim Jong Un as the supreme leader and lodestar of reunification in high esteem.